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Little Egret with yellow legs and feet

To: Mick Roderick <>
Subject: Little Egret with yellow legs and feet
From: peter crow <>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:06:44 +1000
Hello Mick,

Why do you define it as a LittLe Egret?

Peter




On 19/03/2008, at 5:54 PM, Mick Roderick wrote:

Hi all,

There was an interesting Little Egret at Mason Park (Sydney) today with yellow feet and olive-yellow colouring on the legs (particularly the back of the legs). A couple of (poor) images can be seen at:

http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/Brewerbackpacker/Egret/

Has anybody else noticed Little Egrets with this much yellow in the legs? All of the references I looked at failed to really mention this, though I did find a line in HANZAB saying "Sometimes legs and feet, greenish-yellow" (which is referenced to Coates's "The Birds of Papua New Guinea Vol 1.").

I did entertain the possibility of it being a nominate race bird, but have discounted that now (unless someone can convince me otherwise). I have other fotos, but none of high quality.

The Pectoral Sandpiper was still present, along with 2 PGPlovers and a Latham's Snipe.

Mick Roderick


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